Personal details
Full Name:
- Kate Milligan Evans (nee Edger)
Lifetime:
- 6 Jan 1857–6 May 1935
Biography
Kate Edger
On 11 July 1877 Kate Edger (Evans) graduated with a BA in Latin and Mathematics from the University of New Zealand. She became the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA
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11 July 1877Kate Edger becomes NZ’s first woman graduateKate Edger became the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA. Read more...
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Kate Edger (Evans) was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA.